Happy Fourth of July.
A couple weekends ago, while filing a lot of copy, I was engrossed in the 12-part History Channel documentary called America: The Story of Us.
It reminded me of what the History Channel does best. In a world where the access to information is endless, the context of that information was powerful.
With help from Shannon
It’s Memorial Day, so no one’s reading this anyway, right?
In February I announced that I was blogging for uwishunu.com, a popular, award-winning arts and entertainment blog for Philadelphia. Some months I write more for them than others, not all run as expected and some are of only middling interest to casual readers, so I’ve decided I’d like to do a monthly digest of my work there — if only just for record-keeping.
I’ll post them as I file them, not as they run. See all of my posts here, and my profile here.
Below — later than I’ll do this in the future — see my April posts.
Continue reading April uwishunu posts: Hysteria, author appearances and BarCamp
I’m heading to the national BarCamp for NewsInnovation at Temple University in Philadelphia. If you’re in the region, why don’t you stop on by, it runs all day to 5 p.m. and should prove interesting.
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The only proper way a journalist could celebrate Valentine’s Day 2009 is to look elsewhere, the past, namely.
It might have been hard to think in February 2008 that one year later would only look darker for newspapers. Let’s look back on those happier times with what was going on in the blogosphere circa Cupid’s Day 2k8, via the archives of 10,000 Words. Thanks Mark.
For those of you pathetic souls alone and online searching today, something that can totally take away the pain is due up later this morning.
Image from Wikipedia.
Today, on Martin Luther King Day, the last before this country will have its first President of color, below watch the famed civil rights activist’s last speech, the night before he was assasinated 40 years ago.
Continue reading Martin Luther King Jr. Day, before Obama presidency
I am going to the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington D.C. tonight, to get settled and look around town, where I will be covering the inauguration of Barack Obama on Tuesday.
More on that to come.
Obama left yesterday from Philadelphia to head to D.C., also making a stop in Delaware. Leaving from Philadelphia is a historic nod to past presidents, like Abraham Lincoln, and fittingly landed on the 303rd anniversary of the birth of Philly’s favorite founding father: Ben Franklin.
Celebrate that below.
Continue reading In Washington D.C. for Obama inauguration, Franklin birthday
Everyone does their lots of lists to end of the year. So, consider this my wishing you a grand, happy and successful 2009 and my doing just that.
I celebrated my one-year anniversary on this site early December with some of my most popular and favorite posts, so, because they might otherwise overlap, this is strictly my five most viewed posts of 2008.
While originally posted here, this post has been moved here.
